US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 15 for "Absorbent article with function-formed topsheet, and method for manufacturing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,514, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Absorbent article with function-formed topsheet, and method for manufacturing" was invented by Arman Ashraf (Mason, Ohio), Kelyn Anne Arora (Cincinnati), Misael Omar Aviles (Cincinnati), Lennie CruzMurphy (Cincinnati), Antonius Lambertus DeBeer (Loveland, Ohio), Adrien Grenier (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), John Lee Hammons (Hamilton, Ohio), Emma Lynn Sartini (Covington, Ky.) and Paul Thomas Weisman (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent article is disclosed. The article includes a topsheet formed of a section of formed nonwoven web materi...